For all of you folks out there in blogger land who may have been curious: Yes, I am still traveling in this crazy two-man group that we call "The Forester Brothers"! I thought about telling a few lies and excuses for not writing lately and dumping everything on Josh, but then I remembered that in an older post I already used the excuse of being abducted by aliens!
Anyway, I thought I'd tell about our last couple of concerts that we have done this month.

We did a concert on the 8th of this month w/ Mark & Andrea Forester and a trio called His Strength. it was supposed to be a benefit concert for Strength's radio ministry. We only had a little over thirty people show up, but we still had a great time, sold a few CDs, raised a little money for the radio program, and praised God. Josh was in rare form that night. On my last song that I sang, (On My Journey Home) he was goofing of so much on stage that I laughed out more notes than I sang!
Last night we did an evening concert for a Nazarene church in Bay City. There were approx. 75 people there, and boy, were they a great bunch! They clapped along on several songs, laughed at every thing Josh said, and even laughed at MY corny jokes! We had a wonderful time, and Josh and I both agreed that that church would be an excellent place for recording a live CD because of there great response and energy.
Next Sunday we will be at Brown's City United Methodist, and we are looking forward to it, as we do every concert.
God bless all of our readers.....and Happy Thanksgiving!


Stephen

Why I'm Glad Women Don't Rule The World

I don't mean in any way to be chauvinist here, but there are several reasons I am glad women don't completely control the planet:

• every toilet seat on the earth would be chained down.
• the only TV show would be "Charlie's Angels".
• all Terminator memorabilia would be confiscated and burned.
• men would be executed for using the "good towels".
• all pickup trucks would be traded in for pink Volkswagens.
• "Walker, Texas Ranger" would become "Alex, District Attorney".
• it would be a crime to mention "HeMan".

okay, maybe some of these were exaggerations....but every toilet seat WOULD be chained down!

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-Joshua

Coolest Concert Ever!

We just recently did the Roseville concert with Greater Vision and Legacy Five. It was awesome! I have never shared a stage with some of the top names in gospel music before, and it was a real honor, and at the same time a terryfing experience! If I were to mess up, EVERYBODY IMPORTANT WOULD KNOW IT!

Anyway, I've been kind of hard up for jokes lately. Honestlty, finding a joke has gotten as hard as finding a parking space on Cheistmas Eve: "Taken, taken, taken, taken, fire lane, taken...Ooh!.....Ah, maccedamien, the meter's busted...".....wait....that was a joke.

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-Joshua

Gas Station Blues

I was working with my dad again today and we pulled into a gas station. There price was pretty good and there were lines, so we pulled up behind a lady and waited for her to get done. She was apparently filling her tank, which I have no problem with, but this lady's elevator probably stopped around her toenails. I think her multitasking ability was left out of the blueprints because after the tank finished filling, she was standing there talking on her cell phone..... and doing nothing else. She stood there... and stood there... gabbed and stood there... Finally, my dad, undertsandably being impatient, opened the door and said to her, "Are you gonna be here long? We'd like to get some gas." The lady had been standing there on the phone for like a minute and a half doing nothing, and then she gave us a look that you normally only see from blonds. You know, the "there's a PLANET going on here?" kind of look.

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-Joshua

Sometimes The Crowd Is Funnier Than I Am

I hate that. This past Sunday we were back at Riverwalk Baptists Church for their Sunday morning service. I was in the middle of my Schwarzenegger impression when somebody started laughing like somebody funny was on stage. For sake of minimal embarassment (not the lack thereof :) I shall not give her name, but she laughed so hard I had to stop the routine and wait for her to calm down. When I resumed, so did she. I wanted to say, "Ushers, would you please remove this woman?" Just kidding. If you're reading this, you really brightened up my day.

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-Joshua

Personal Ads Are Retarded

I have a thing against personal ads. Do you really think that EVERYBODY out there is "attractive, fun-loving, and an all-around good person"? I would love to take out a personal ad just to mess with those people.
"Short, dumpy Caucasian male with splotches of European. Likes to wear flannel all year, has somewhere between fifteen and twenty teeth. Left leg is shorter than the right. Loves to ski. Hates moonlight walks, candlelight dinners, poetry, and anything remotely romantic. Can't stand animals, has a deep hatred for children, thinks in-laws should be outlawed. Has a repuslive taste for fun, enjoys miserable, cold, rainy days. An all-around good person. Call me at 555-2DREAMY."

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-Joshua

College Comedy

Yesterday, I had one of the most pressured times in my life: I did about five minutes of stand-up comedy at Midwestern Baptist College! THAT'S pressure!!! It was either make all my new friends think I'm really good at this and funny or they look at me like they wish they had no idea who I was. I tried out a new piece of material and it seemed to go pretty well.

I was kind of worried about the whole thing though because I had only gotten a grand total of like three hours sleep the night before. The problem was that a storm had knocked out our power at 1:50 AM. I was depending on my iPod alarm to wake me up, but when I had to unplug everything, I found myself doing the dumbest thing ever. I decided that the only thing that would get me up on time would be to take my iPod itself, set the alarm on that thing, then try to go to sleep with earbuds in my head............that doesn't work. I was conscious that if I rolled over, the buds would come out. When one is lying in bed trying not to roll over, one doesn't fall asleep very easily. Too bad I couldn't have slept on a psycho stretcher (I would have, but mine was getting repaired). Anyway, after all that, my alarm clock switched to battery power and went off on schedule. I had to sing "O, How I Love Jesus" all morning to keep the right spirit. Good thing it went off, though, because my iPod's clock was about an hour behind. I would've woke up about the time we had to leave.
"What's for breakfast?" "A cracker, grab a tie and get in the car!" Thankfully, the day still went well.
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-Joshua